Hints and tips:
...Last, I must mention the pool at one of my favourite hotels, La Colombe d’Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence....
...On a table in his superb portrait of Paul Gachet, Auvers’ friendly doctor, he painted what he describes as a dark purple foxglove, relevant, I assume, to Gachet’s herbal medicine chest....
...As a gardener, I am wary of learning too much. The past year left a mixed legacy for learners. In Britain, it was friendly to gardeners from spring until mid-autumn....
...Naturally, we now have Master Gardener, the latest instalment of an unlikely comeback. Schrader and his troubled men unto themselves have returned to vogue....
...This moment occurs near the end of Paul Auster’s 18th novel, but it could well be the beginning....
...Beneficiaries will include “intelligent” blue-collar workers, such as gardeners, plumbers, carpenters and others who can use AI to manage projects....
...A recent pilgrimage to one of Cornwall’s great nurseries reminded me that certain plants stalk (ha) gardeners throughout their lives....
...Inside Compton Verney house, the Folk Art gallery includes a hilarious picture called “City Foulers Mark” with man and dog squatting, St Paul’s Cathedral in the distant background....
...Tchaikovsky’s score, taped and amplified, has been freely adapted and is supplemented (some might say sabotaged) with baby cries, thunderclaps and other extraneous noises in Paul Groothuis’s sound design...
..., from the startling first moment — the encrusted “Sugar Bowl, Pears and Blue Cup” (1865-70), whose glistening impasto seems to leap off the surface — to the mysterious, sombre last works where the old gardener...
...Now, gardeners are realising the potential and necessity of deploying the same principles of land disruption and cultivation to create unexpected results....
...Others followed suit and, in the 1960s and 1970s, Pope Paul VI loved the site as a summer retreat. He became a heli-pope....
...Lucian Freud, says his long-term assistant David Dawson, did not share a gardener’s or horticulturalist’s love of plants....
...Tips for aspiring gardeners. The 900-acre gardens at Highgrove, his family residence, have long been a labour of love for him....
...Paul Richardson was a guest of Cas Gasi and Six Senses Ibiza...
...Paul Myners, the opposite of a conventional City grandee, took great delight in boardroom battles....
...He had scarcely unwrapped the crockery when an invitation to a barbecue arrived from next door via the gardener....
...“She’s a ferocious gardener,” says Adrian. “She’ll be pottering around out there for a couple of hours every afternoon. And then she has her famous rest, from four till six.”...
...I will continue to encourage gardeners to throw off sparks while pursuing what they love in life....
...If business takes you to the City or pilgrimage to St Paul’s Cathedral, go across to the excellently planted gardens in front of the remains of old Christchurch Greyfriars....
...A “virtual path” through the house follows the line of an original gardener’s path to a gateway in the walled garden. “It’s like a secret passageway to a paradise garden,” she says....
...There was however, not a resident in sight – just squadrons of gardeners, mowing a lot of lawns. Newport is a famously private community....
...Displayed in the first rooms, early paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, when Jarman was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, draw on a cornucopia of styles from Paul Nash to Abstract Expressionism....
...They are another good tip for London gardeners as their range, too, has multiplied in recent years....
...It will be fascinating to see what the gardeners then make of the renewed space under glass....
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